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No, you don’t rub these on your aching hands. You eat them.

Larry Wright swears his gin-soaked “Drunken Raisins” home remedy can reduce inflammation pain from arthritis, and his Lafayette company will sell you a pound for $24.95.

“One of the reasons I decided to do this was, I was talking about my pain while everybody was talking about their pain,” says Wright, 72. “The Internet says 40 million-plus people have arthritis, have inflammation problems. That’s a pretty big market.” He tested them himself, back when he couldn’t even button his shirt. Then he began eating gin-soaked raisins. “Now, even my golf game is better,” Wright says. “I’m not even taking medication.”

Some customers didn’t like the straight gin, so Wright added honey and cinnamon. “And if you leave them laying out for a week, the alcohol disappears,” he says. “You can kind of taste it.”

If you drop them in your oatmeal, that oughta make for a most interesting day in the office.

Wright’s business background includes owning an accounting business for 27 years in the Detroit area, part ownership of a golf course and developing the Rams Horn Village Resort in Estes Park.

Next up in product development: Stoned apricots and impaired prunes. Nah, we made those up.

The gin-soaked raisins are for sale exclusively at drunkenraisins.com.